Praxis: Malerei, Video and Film 

The Art of the Deal: Money, Favors, Sex and Power
Nummer und TypBKM-BKM-Pr.17F.012 / Moduldurchführung
ModulPraxis 
VeranstalterDepartement Fine Arts
LeitungMarc Bauer, Co-Leitung: Anita di Biancho; Assistenz: Ian Rodney Wooldridge
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 17
ECTS16 Credits
VoraussetzungenThe Students will have to watch the Adam Curtis’ documentary The Century of the Self, available to watch on Youtube.
LehrformThis PM 12, will be mainly have a seminar format, lectures, open discussion, film screenings, guest presentations, and of course Arbeitsgespräche (mentoring) and will end with an exhibition of the students’ works.
The PM12 will be taught in English
Lernziele / KompetenzenBe critical and aware of structures and constructions, institutions, politics, identities, cultures

Analysing Art works, film, Pop Culture

Creates contexts for their own work
InhaltePm 12 thematizes the complex web of relationships between neoliberalism and gender/sexuality. Using examples from cinema and contemporary art, we will focus on identity construction and the formation of the idea of the individual, in both artistic and political terms. In particular we will explore films and TV series that map both the build-up and the breakdown of the primacy of self- and individual expression.

One important source for our discussion will be Adam Curtis’ documentary The Century of the Self, available to watch on Youtube. This film traces the influence and instrumentalization of Freud’s ideas of the subconscious in the hippie and new age movements of the 1960s and 1970s and suggests their culmination in the domination of advertising and frenzied consumerism. The echoes and conflicts such ideas present for contemporary art will be the basis of our discussions and exploration.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungRegelmässige, aktive Teilnahme. 80% Anwesenheitspflicht
Termine22.2., 23-24.2.(-), 1-3.3.W&SR, 9.-3.W& SR, 22.-23.3. SR, 24.3.(-), 30.3.W&SR, 12.-13.4.SR, 14.4.(-), (20.4.), 26.4.(-),27.4.PR,28.4.(-),3-5.5.(-),17.-18.5.PR oder Viaduktraum oder Kunstraum;31.5.-1.6.(SR); (je ganzer Tag)
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